dixiedrifter
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Ok I been thinking, 5 inch posts at my TSC are like $10+.
So what if you could make your own posts out of plastic bottles, jugs, or even better the sheeting used to wrap silage and other bales of hay?
Basically the idea woudl be similar to a log splitter, cept with a pipe on the I-beam for compression. See attachement. No flaming please, it was done in "paint".
The top image is the "mini-log" maker. This takes plastic (preferably ground) and compresses it into short small logs. On the end is a thick bar stop that can be removed at the end of the compression cycle to allow removal of the "mini-logs".
The second image is the extruder. The "mini logs" are forced via hydraulic ram into a slightly smaller diameter pipe. On the outside of the pipe is an oil bath heated to 350-400 degrees fareheight.
The combination of pressure from the reduction of the "mini-logs" + the hot oil bath might be just enough to fuse the plastic making a fence post.
Course to keep it all straight, immediately after the heated extrusion "nozzle", a water bath could be rigged up to cool the newly formed post and keep it straight and true.
Comments on my madness?
http://personalpages.tds.net/~jareds/postmaker.bmp
So what if you could make your own posts out of plastic bottles, jugs, or even better the sheeting used to wrap silage and other bales of hay?
Basically the idea woudl be similar to a log splitter, cept with a pipe on the I-beam for compression. See attachement. No flaming please, it was done in "paint".
The top image is the "mini-log" maker. This takes plastic (preferably ground) and compresses it into short small logs. On the end is a thick bar stop that can be removed at the end of the compression cycle to allow removal of the "mini-logs".
The second image is the extruder. The "mini logs" are forced via hydraulic ram into a slightly smaller diameter pipe. On the outside of the pipe is an oil bath heated to 350-400 degrees fareheight.
The combination of pressure from the reduction of the "mini-logs" + the hot oil bath might be just enough to fuse the plastic making a fence post.
Course to keep it all straight, immediately after the heated extrusion "nozzle", a water bath could be rigged up to cool the newly formed post and keep it straight and true.
Comments on my madness?
http://personalpages.tds.net/~jareds/postmaker.bmp